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I had a great conversation with an entrepreneur the other day
talking about the difference between accomplishment and success.
Accomplishment is what happens on the road to success, but
declaring something a “success” vs. recognizing that it’s simply
one of a handful of requirements to get to success. And of course
viewing something this way changes the lens through which you
consider that accomplishment and can significantly change
decisions you make because of it. Think of it like drawing a line
through a single point (or even a couple of relatively closely
grouped points) – it’s easy to delude yourself into thinking
you’re on one path before you actually have the data to prove it.
And for a start-up, this can mean spending precious resources
inefficiently, before you realize what line you’re really on.
I’ve lived through this so many times (as has the entrepreneur I
was talking with), plowing full speed ahead without recognizing
that we had blinders and only later realizing (after
wasting a bunch of money) that we misinterpreted some early
accomplishment as successfully having figured something out
(which we hadn’t).